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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalThis book is meant for M. Phil and Ph. D. research students, research guides, writers of research papers or research articles, teachers, scholars of literature and literary criticism, students of linguistics and all those who wish to know more about research in literature and languages.
Being Indo-Centric, rather than Euro-Centric, it discusses the basic questions of research, such as: How to select a topic? How to prepare the initial synopsis? How to prepare the detailed outline of the thesis or the paper? How to develop the argument or the point of view? How to cite references? How to prepare a bibliography and the final synopsis? And how to face the Viva?
It discusses fundamental questions like what is to be searched in literature and languages and why.
It is clear in views, highly informative in its content, lucid and enjoyable in its style and a recent statement on the subject concerning globalisation and national development.
For foreign readers, this book provides an Indian perspective of literature and research in literature and languages with reference to the concept of ‘world literature’ in the process of globalisation of human life.
H.V. Deshpande
Prin. Dr. H.V. Deshpande is the ex-principal of Ajara College, Ajara Dist. Kolhapur. He has 38 years of degree teaching and 22 years of post-graduate degree teaching experience at his credit. He was a member of the Senate, Academic Council and Faculty of Arts of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur and was honoured by the university with the prestigious ‘Gunavant Shikshak Purskar’ in 2001. He has won two ‘Olive Reddick Prizes’ (Jr. and Sr.) of ‘The Indian Association for American Studies (IAAS)’. He was the member of the Executive Council of the IAAS twice. He was honoured with a State Award for excellent NSS work by his college and was selected by NAAC-Bangalore as a member of their Peer Teams. His college is recognised as the ‘Lead College’ of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
His works include Pearl Buck’s Fiction: East West Cultural Encounter (1999), NAAC: Shaikshanik Gunawatteche Mulyamapan (2002), NAAC Punarmulyankan Ani Mahavidyalayache Prashasan (2005) and Literature and Literary Criticism: Indian and Western Perspectives (2006).
Dr. Deshpande is the founder member of ‘Sindhudurg Sahitya Sangh, Sawantwadi’ of which he was the working President for 14 years. He is a recognised guide for M.Phil. and Ph.D. of a few Universities in Maharashtra.
He was the joint Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Sammelan (1978) and the President of the Shivaji University English Teachers’ Association. He has published many papers in reputed journals and magazines. He has worked as the State Secretary and the member of the National Executive Council of the ‘Indian Colleges Forum, New Delhi (ICF).
